Alex George Pickering
@AlexGPickering
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Screenwriter, author, producer: BOUNDARY, HEARD, CRATE, JUMPMAN, FIG, PUSS/KUNG FU PANDA SHORTS, etc., Dad, #USCSCA Grad, #CBU Prof, Rep: @CitizenSkull w/Matt
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2009
Thrilled to see FIG among the Most Popular Short Films on @Kanopy—one of my proudest writing projects from my USC MFA days, directed by the one and only Ryan Coogler. First on HBO, it found a final home on Kanopy. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. Still means the world to me.
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THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!
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Congrats, CM Punk! Back to the top of the mountain again. What a journey. #SNME 🔥
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Scripts written by humans. Scripts read by humans. Showcase curated by humans. 100s of targeted emails handwritten. 100s of requests/communication by humans. Overtime. Holidays. Weekends. It’s fucking hard. That’s the hustle of human art. Do it for the love. Don’t press a button
Lights. Camera. RADNESS— The hottest new horror scripts in Hollywood are here, featuring produced pros & emerging voices from The Dead List. Season 3 is LIVE and nothing short of sinister. Access in bio, but don’t miss the marquee preview below☠️👇🏻
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Happy Halloween all your horror heads! Be safe, have fun, and thanks for all your infinite radness in the community ⚡️☠️⚡️
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When scammers text or email you, just offer them to read your screenplay. Trust me, they'll go away.
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You are not too old and it is not too late. Pass it on.
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If you envy everyone’s progress around you, time speeds up and slips away— If you center your focus on yourself and your own work, time slows down and opportunity stays patient.
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I'm psychologically THRILLED to announce that 2 years ago, we started development of a @JLisaJay script and it's almost out of post production! @erichcannon brought me The Cuckoo Clock, we scouted for locations and the Horror/Thriller was filmed in January 2024 in Seattle in a
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To get support from the film community, you need to participate in that community. Watch and read people's work. Share their wins. Leave reviews. Attend events. Refer people. Donate. Send links to opportunities. People won't show up for you if you've never done it for them.
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Wishing all my screenwriting and filmmaker peeps an amazing time at the Austin Film Festival!🎬
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The Punisher never misses... a good party.😎💀 Thanks to Jack and Sara for hosting a killer Halloween party this past weekend!🎃
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Lights. Camera. RADNESS— The hottest new horror scripts in Hollywood are here, featuring produced pros & emerging voices from The Dead List. Season 3 is LIVE and nothing short of sinister. Access in bio, but don’t miss the marquee preview below☠️👇🏻
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For the 3rd year in a row, my friend Ariana Farina, Feature Programming Chair for @danceswithfilms, joined my CBU class to give an amazing virtual presentation on the do’s & don’ts of film festival submissions. Huge thanks to Ariana for sharing her expertise with my students!🎬🔥
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RIP to the GOAT of movie poster design, Drew Struzan.🙏
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I know this is like, totally not the way, but fuck it. If there is a showrunner, director, producer, or casting director in your life you think would get a kick out of this, consider texting this to them? Bonus points if they have the ability to hire me.
“Ovation” — a new short film written and performed by Luke Barnett — is described as “an actor’s journey through a never-ending standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.”
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Me explaining to my students that making films is hard:
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Pro tip: put hard cookies in the microwave for 15 seconds and they become soft cookies.🍪
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